Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.